5 injured in Channelview shooting

Anita Hassa, Houston Chronicle

By Anita Hassan

Updated 7:09 am, Monday, December 16, 2013

A Harris County Sheriff's Office Deputy walks by evidence lying at a shooting scene on East Harris County where five young males were wounded Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. The shootings are still under investigation.
Photo: Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle

Authorities are investigating a shooting that left five males injured in east Harris County Sunday afternoon.

Deputies responded to a shooting in the 900 block of Ashland around 3 p.m. to find one man lying in the front yard with a gunshot wound, said Harris County Sheriff's Office spokesman deputy Thomas Gilliland.

While they were preparing to transport the man to the hospital, investigators received a call that four men with gunshot wounds arrived at a nearby hospital, Gilliland said.

Investigators learned that all the men were connected to the same shooting on Ashland, Gilliland said.

The four men at the hospital all had non-life threatening injuries. The fifth man found shot in the street was taken by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann Hospital, where he is in stable condition,

At this time, the motive for the shooting is still unknown. Investigators were still in the process of interviewing victims and witnesses Sunday evening.